Introduction to the brambleterminal package

Introduction to the brambleterminal package

We have developed the brambleterminal package to enable you to integrate spots into your cluster. Its functionality is based on R’s parallel package, but under the hood it rewires quite a lot:

dynamic load balancing which is robust against the termination of nodes, handles nodes of varying capacity and latency, and keeps computational overhead low

lets you define start-up commands to configure nodes when they become available, such as spot nodes whose request is fulfilled when the computation is already running

documentation of intermediate results, so nothing is lost when your computation fails for any reason

progress bar for the computation

The brambleterminal package is in still beta phase and we are working on a number of improvements. You are free to use it and we are happy about any feedback (touch.base@bramblecloud.com). But we give no warranty and the disclaimer in our Terms of Use applies.